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Laughter will cure life's ills. Have you had your laugh today?
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Just like those commercials you see nowadays, depression DOES hurt.
I take cymbalta and xanex. I know I am getting better, but I don't always feel like it.
I don't trust what I see or hear. I don't know if its the depression talking or not.
"Won't you roll me away tonight
I too am lost, I feel double-crossed. And Im sick of whats wrong and whats right."
But why is it such a damn roller coaster? That is what makes it the worst. Feeling fine...then WHAM, your stomach goes into knots, the movies start playing in your head, and you are glad there are no firearms nearby.....
I find that to be very true.
Oh - and I suffer from double depression.
Chronic and SADD.
Here is a good link my husband found somewhere for depression and other disorders linking to depression. It also lists different types of drugs for depression, side effects and a lot of good information:
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Then dday..it was like a tornado...my son is the one keeping me going...
and this forum has helped a lot too...thanks to everyone again.
Kind of woke me up to not wanting to go further.
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I'm creating a feature for my software that bans the user for 10 minutes if he/she has failed to login thrice.
The problem is, I don't know how to code that.
I got ideas on how to do it but I don't know what predefined classes or functions to use.
Can you please teach me what classes or functions to use to code this feature?
I'm a complete beginner but I'm willing to learn so please help.
Thanks in advance!
You could declare some variables with class scope such as
Dim numFailed As Integer 'number of consecutive failed login attempts
Dim lastAttempt As Date 'date & time of last login attempt
Dim lastUser As String 'name of last user to try to login
In the form load event, initialize numFailed to 0 and lastUser to "". When the user tries to login, the logic would be as follows
Dim canLogin as Boolean = True
if currentUser = lastUser Then
if numFailed = 3 Then
if less than 10 minutes since lastAttempt Then
canLogin = False
end if
end if
end if
if canLogin then
if Login(currentUser) Then
numFailed = 0
numFailed += 1
end if
lastUser = currentUser
lastAttempt = Now()
MsgBox("please wait a few minutes and try again"
end if
Thanks for the reply!
Gonna try this. I'll keep you updated to what happens.
hello !
if you are using db with this application then make a table for example name tblLogingFail .now when ever you want to ban a user then insert data in that table fields name recID,UserID,Logindate , now after this set condition that if logintime difference is less then 10 min then dont allow user and if difference is more then 10 mint allow him to login.
The last poster (whose handle I can't spell this early before my coffee) is right. You'd have to preserve the data somehow in case the user just restarts the app. This could be through a database, file, or through My.Settings variables.
Ok, so here's what I have so far.
I created a simple restriction for the user if he/she fails to login thrice.
Here it is
Private Sub BanUser()
txtEmployeeID.Text = ""
txtPassword.Text = ""
txtEmployeeID.Enabled = False
txtPassword.Enabled = False
btnLogin.Enabled = False
MessageBox.Show("You are banned for 10 minutes because your failed login attempts is more than thrice!", "Message", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation)
End Sub
But I don't know what functions or objects to use to compare the time
of the user's last attempt and the current time on the system.
I tried this code from your code above @Reverend Jim,
Dim lastAttempt As Date
lastAttempt = Now()
but it seems that its returning the date and not the time.
And one more thing, can you please, teach me how this My.Settings variables work
because I don't have a clue on how to use it properly to store the time settings on the time restriction.
Thanks in advance!
hello !
Please check the attached solution , it will ban single user for 10 mints ,
Thanks for the reply!
I'd check this out and post here.
Got this now.


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DVDripTools is a collection of scripts that operate DVD ripping tools. It consists of ripdvd, which creates an MKV, OGM, or MP4 file container very easily; ripdvdcrop, which detects the cropping to use when ripping a DVD; and ripdvdtest, which performs a ripping test of a few seconds.
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wview is an application that controls a supported weather station to retrieve archive records and current conditions. Archive records may optionally be stored in a relational database (MySQL or PostgreSQL). At a user-defined interval, wview will use the archive history and current conditions to generate weather images (buckets and graphs) and Web pages based on configurable HTML templates. It supports serial and USB data loggers, as well as connectivity with a terminal server or serial server via TCP sockets.
Trojan scan is a simple shell script that allows for simple but relatively effective checking for trojans, rootkits and other malware that may be using your server and network for unwanted (and possibly illegal) purposes. It works by listing all processes that use the Internet with the lsof command (using -Pni flags). This list is then transformed into signatures in the form of process_name:port_number:user. These signatures then are matched against the allowed process defined in the configuration. If any signatures of running processes are found that do not match the allowed signatures, an email report is sent including ps, ls, and optional lsof output.
dmzBackup is a program for backing up data in a heterogeneous DMZ network. It features disk-to-disk backup of remote/local host data, data encryption, multiple simultaneous data flows, error logs and email reporting, a search tool for locating files in a backup, a compressed index, host timestamps for incremental backups, human readable journal logs, host based configuration files, command-line arguments for interactive backups, client side compression, and unlimited (remote) backup clients for one backup host.
DVD-Baker generates a DVD consisting of menus and slideshows from a picture collection stored in a Menalto Gallery G2 Web site or in a locally stored directory tree. Each "leaf" album (an album that does not contain sub-albums) is used to create a slideshow. The slideshows (and any DVD-ready MPEG videos) are made accessible on the DVD with menus that follow the structure of the Web site or directories. Extra features include random or sequential autoplay, and audio support. Since dvd-slideshow is used to produce each slideshow, it supports effects such as crossfades, crops, and 'Ken Burns' effects.
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I live in Smithfield, VA which has a population of 7,070. Things can get pretty exciting around here.
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Yeah, all of L.A. is about 9.8m.
Dr. B. Lurkom, PhD said:
That's just the city though. Rather than the whole L.A. area.
At least I think...
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That surprises me, seeing as London is about 8.7m
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His passion for the Southwestern culture would make one think he was a born Nevadan, but this Los Angeles native has spent most of his life as a ferrier and caring for horses.
That enthusiasm led Appelt to become an artist who weaves rope baskets, using an important tool of the cowboys, and capturing the Western tradition of Nevada, where he has lived since the 1960s.
On Saturday, Appelt will offer demonstrations of his basket making, as well as gourd art, at Eagle's Nest Trading Post in Reno.
"There's a lot to it," Appelt said.
Appelt fashions the rope baskets by creating a base, cutting off the ends of rope, then burning, melting and coiling the rope in a circular motion until it is shaped like a small vase.
Each basket is unique, particularly in the colors of the rope, which vary according to the burning of the rope's fibers, which reveals the nylon strings holding it together. Some of Appelt's baskets are a traditional light brown or grey tone while others are orange, blue or darker gray.
"They vary from green to turquoise, pink, brown, to white to orange to red," Appelt said. "You name it, they have it. The cowboys get it real bright; they like the pink ropes and that kind of stuff."
Some of the baskets look blackened by strips of innertube that are cut and placed as Appelt makes the basket to keep it from slipping and keep fingers from catching, he said.
Appelt said the craft can be dangerous as it involves burning. He works carefully with his right index finger, the tip of which he lost after a horse trampled on it while he was trying to reshoe it.
Appelt can make baskets of single, double or triple ropes and can do custom work for people depending on their intentions for the basket.
"Some people's horses, when they pass away, they'll want to take part of the tail and use it (as a finishing touch on a basket)," Appelt said. "That way they can have it on display and have memories of their horses."
Appelt also uses pheasant feathers and trade beads, or non-manufactured beads, as decorative items.
"You can tell the difference because the real trade beads are duller, rougher," he said.
With his gourd art, Appelt puts intricate glasswork on the exterior of the hollow shells. Often, he said, he'll put turquoise in a cast-iron skillet and smash it and use it to create Aztec symbols or petroglyphs, such as a lizard, top it with resin and grind it to create a textured look.
Appelt keeps several works as trophies for his demonstrations, but also sells some of his creations. He charges $65 for single ropers, $95 for double ropers and $150 or more for baskets that use three ropes.
It's a fun and unique craft, Appelt said, and he enjoys designing his works.
He was mentored by Yvonne Logan, another local artist, and credits his friendship with her and others for helping him learn and refine his craft.
"I wouldn't be what I am if it wasn't for the teachers I had," he said.
Appelt will give demonstrations of rope basket making and gourd art at Eagle's Nest Trading Post, a gallery within Wildflower Village, on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Black Cisco Kid With Green Shoulders Jumpsuit (1971) One of many in this design see Blue Cisco Kid and Red Cisco Kid.
Known Dates Worn:-
August, 1971
More pictures click HERE
All pictures above are from August 1971. Elvis didn't start to wear the "Cisco Kids" before his July engagement in Lake Tahoe. He first wore the two piece version and later shifted to the jumpsuit versions.
I really love the green with the black on this jumpsuit. Too bad he didn't wear it more often.
Another shot ...........
'What, honey ? ..... one scarf for the balcony ?! ........... OK ........... gimme a baseball ! ............ there's no way unless you put a rock in it'.
(Las Vegas - 7th December 1975)
Black Cisco Kid Suit With Green Shoulders
Las Vegas
(a couple of the pictures are seen here already but they are cropped different)
Black Cisco Kid Suit With Green Shoulders
Las Vegas
1971 08 11 DS (continued)
(a couple of the pictures are seen here already but they are cropped different)
the last bottom picture is not cropped differently but i decided to include it here anyway to let you know its from the same date
Or am I wrong ?
does anyone happen to have more good quality type pictures with color of elvis in january in his green cisco kid on stage? or if not could they be colored?
The Cisco suits are not my favorites but I do like them a lot. I wish there were more stage pictures of them in the various colours, both the one and the two-piece suits.
I had it in my mind that the one-piece were the first he wore then the two-piece. Thanks for correcting that for me Leroy.
I think I like the two-piece best especially the blue one.
The first time that I ever saw Elvis live was in Vegas in August of 1971 and he wore the Cisko kid jumpsuit. Good Lord...he was handsome
Last night while watching Adrenaline '71 I saw some magnificent footage of this 2 piece outfit. Very cool stuff.
"How do I get placed in situations like this? Ah hell, I guess it's all part of showbusiness "~ Elvis in his limo on his way to perform in Omaha, NE on June 19th 1977
This suit is really a favorite of mine....it just stands out and gets my attention from the very first time I'd ever seen pics of Elvis wearing it.He really looks awesome in this suit.
Especially the Green and the Red one.Thanks for all the great pics guys and gals.


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House Bill 2237 as enacted by the 80th Texas Legislature created the Science Laboratory Grant Program to provide competitive grants to school districts for the purpose of constructing or renovating high school science laboratories where the existing district science laboratories are insufficient in number to comply with the curriculum requirements imposed for the recommended and advanced high school programs under the Texas Education Code, §28.025(b-1)(1).
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Jamaica: Places to Explore
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Ocho Rios
Although Ocho Rios isn't near eight rivers as its name would seem to indicate, it does have a seemingly endless series of cascades that sparkle from limestone rocks along the coast. (The name Ocho Rios came about because the English misunderstood the Spanish las chorreras—"the waterfalls.") The town itself isn't very attractive and can be traffic-clogged, but the area has several worthwhile attractions, including the very popular Dunn's River Falls. A few steps from the main road in Ocho Rios are some of the most charming inns and oceanfront restaurants in the Caribbean. Lying on the sand of what seems to be your very own cove or swinging gently in a hammock while sipping a tropical drink, you'll soon forget the traffic that's just a stroll away. The original "defenders" stationed at the Old Fort, built in 1777, spent much of their time sacking and plundering as far afield as St. Augustine, Florida, and sharing their booty with the local plantation owners who financed their missions. Discovery Bay, 15 miles (24 km) west, is where Columbus landed and where there's a small museum with such artifacts as ships' bells and cannons and iron pots used for boiling sugarcane. Don't miss a drive through Fern Gully, a natural canopy of vegetation filtered by sunlight. (Jamaica has the world's largest number of fern species, more than 570.) To reach the stretch of road called Fern Gully, take the A3 highway south of Ocho Rios.
Ocho Rios at a Glance
- Bob Marley Centre and Mausoleum
- Coyaba Gardens and Mahoe Waterfalls
- Dunn's River Falls
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- Faith's Pen
- Fern Gully
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- The Almond Tree
- Evita's Italian Restaurant
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- Margaritaville Ocho Rios
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- Couples Sans Souci Resort and Spa
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Elsewhere in Jamaica
See Also
- 80 Degrees: Fodor's Helps You Find Your Best Beach Vacation Spots
- Fodor's Go List 2014: Where we are going in 2014
- World Cup Fever: Start planning your trip to Brazil!
- Fodor's 100 Hotel Awards: Check out the winners of 2013
- Weekend Getaways: Fodor's Recommends the Best Weekend Escapes in the US
- Great American Vacation: Find Your Next U.S. Trip with Fodor's


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It is November 16 guys. Think on that for a moment. Not counting the days off, there are 144 days left in the season. We have yet to even reach the quarter mark so the fate of your fantasy team is far from sealed. If you are one of the lucky few to have come out of the gates flying, soak it up but do not get complacent. Likewise, if your team looks out of it now, chin up.
Take a real hard look at your squad. Is it bad or just underperforming? Is it strong or just incredibly lucky? A good tool to help you analyze this is one such as the "MVP's" tool provided by Yahoo! It outlines which players are owned by the highest percentage of teams winning their pool, across all Yahoo! leagues. This is handy because it can help you read a little further into your success or failures. The third MVP across all Yahoo! H2H leagues is Daniel Sedin, meaning up until this point he has been the best value out of players selected in the first round. You normally see a great number of first round talents among the MVP's but only D. Sedin sits among the top 10 (depending on how you feel about goalies).
If your high picks are not on the MVP's list then do not fret. Time is the greatest equalizer and these guys will be at or near the top by season's end. If, on the other hand, you find a great number of your late round picks and waiver wire snags on this list then maybe you should be plotting your next move. While some of these surprise players stick around all year (think Tim Thomas last year and probably Jamie Benn this year), most will not. The cream always seems to rise to the top and when it does, you best not be clinging to your scraps while they drown at the bottom.
In this week's Cage Match I've selected two MVP's that everyone and their mother knows won't keep it up. It's Joffrey Lupul vs. Kris Versteeg in a race to the bottom, or in this case, the waiver wire.
All kidding aside, Lupul and Versteeg do still have value. After all, they are on that MVP's list. You do not get there for doing nothing. The only way that would be true is if every league champion somehow had the same sick sense of humour and drafted one of Clayton Stoner, Jonathan Cheechoo or Ilya Kovalchuk to sit on their bench. So while you should be hocking them like a toaster oven on late night TV, you also don't want to throw either of them away. But here is the rub; if given the choice which one should you choose?
Obviously neither one is an 80-point player, as their respective paces currently suggest. A quick glance at their three-year averages gives us the picture of a depth scorer, not a first line stud.
These two are streaky options, not to be relied upon for consistently. Based on the numbers though, Versteeg has been the better own that is because he has been healthy. On the flip side if you extrapolate Lupul's averages over a 79 game season you get a line that looks like this:
That would give Lupul a slight edge. If we assume that these two are really only to be snagged or dressed during hot streaks then Lupul has been the better own because of his slight advantages in PIM and SOG. Of course, if these guys are starters for you then this point is moot. And really, you absolutely cannot discount the fact that Lupul has been somewhat injury prone over his career unless you aren't planning on keeping him around. So while it is helpful to know that Lupul, when healthy, has historically offered us a little bit more than Versteeg you must consider your personal situation.
The tough part is that it is those injuries that have really derailed Lupul's once promising career. If he had a start to a season like this three years ago, we'd all be trumpeting it as his breakout. Instead every time he has been on the verge, he has broken down. Now Lupul is 28 years old and we know he is nothing more than a stop gap. Versteeg, on the other hand, is but 25 years old, which is the perfect age for a late bloomer to bust out.
What's more, Versteeg finds himself in an optimal situation. He is on the top line of the Panthers who are playing inspired hockey, under a new coach with a slew of new veteran players, in a crappy division. If Versteeg was ever going to explode it was in this type of position. He was buried in Chicago, redundant in Toronto, and he was whatever the product of buried AND redundant is while playing in Philadelphia. He is like a flower that got sick and tired of having to share light and nutrients with the other bigger flowers so he ripped himself out of the ground and planted himself in the middle of the lawn. That's right. Versteeg is the dandelion you never wanted but now is the time to embrace him, because the only pesticide for mediocre players is a bad coach and that is not something one can say about Florida's Kevin Dineen.
Versteeg's opportunity could not be more perfect. Sure last season he was a top liner in Toronto but his shoot first style conflicted with Kessel. In Florida though, he is playing alongside two playmakers in Tomas Fleischmann and Stephen Weiss. This feeds his shoot first play perfectly. As Frozenpool will show us, that line has clearly clicked as they are skating together for over 90% of their shifts at both even strength and on the power play. What's more is that Panthers power play is one of the league's best (fourth overall). Versteeg is receiving over 19 minutes a night and just under four minutes of power play ice time per game.
Versteeg will not maintain his pace (20 points in 17 games). Simply put, there is no way Florida is that good. Nor is Versteeg that good. His 17.4% shooting is way too high and will come back down to earth. That said he could go for 60-plus points. That would be a career high. He's also certain to reach career highs in both PPP and SOG. He is already halfway to his career high 16 PPP and is on pace for his first 200+ SOG season.
Just as the Florida has proved to be the ideal destination for Versteeg, Toronto has been similarly suitable for Lupul. After all he is on a similar pace as Versteeg (19 points in 18 games). But, as we have come to expect from Lupul, this is most likely nothing more than a hot streak.
Strangely enough, Lupul was brought to Toronto to fill Versteeg's spot (at least in part) as winger opposite Phil Kessel on the top line and unlike Versteeg, Lupul's shoot first style has somehow fit. While the Leafs still have no permanent solution to their top line centerman conundrum, it is clear that the Kessel-Lupul wing combo is here to stay. As Frozenpool shows us, these two have been absolutely inseparable on the ice.
Lupul is receiving similar ice time as Versteeg, with 18 minutes a night, over three of which come on the power play. Where they differ however, is that while Versteeg and his linemates are the undisputed top line in Florida, the Lupul-Kessel-Shmuck line has to compete with the Kulemin-Grabovski-MacArthur line for power play time. As Frozenpool once again will demonstrate, the power play units have hardly been consistent for the Leafs this season.
The Kulemin-Grabovski-MacArthur line was one of the best in the league last season and will be putting constant pressure on Lupul/Kessel to perform or risk losing minutes.
What's more, while it is reasonable to assume that the Leafs' slightly above average offense will continue to perform at this rate, the Lupul-Kessel duo is no doubt overachieving. Lupul's 18.4% shooting this season is much too high, but Kessel's 20.8% shooting is even less sustainable (twice his career average).That mojo is bound to fade. Still, this is no reason to count Lupul out just yet. His pros and cons are really no different than Versteeg's so let's dig deeper.
Take a look at the game logs for both Lupul and Versteeg. Versteeg's game log this season should have alarm bells going off. Nearly half of his points have come from his two four-point games, and he already has six goose eggs this season. That screams of the sort of uneven, undependable play that will torment you as a fantasy owner. Lupul, on the other hand, has five goose eggs and while he has had his share of multipoint games has been slightly more consistent overall. Rather than be alarmed by Versteeg's overabundance of multipoint efforts and goose eggs, I am instead alarmed by Lupul's lack-thereof.
Over the past three seasons neither Lupul nor Versteeg has been consistent. In fact, they've been consistently inconsistent. Over the past three seasons Lupul has been held scoreless in 54.4%, 56.5% and 51.9% of games respectively. Versteeg has been similarly inconsistent with goose eggs in 51.3%, 57.0% and 57.5% of games. This season Versteeg has been scoreless in 35.3% of games, which should trend closer to 50% by seasons end, but it is nothing compared to Lupul's being scoreless in only 27.8% of games. If I have any concerns about consistency, I am concerned about Lupul's newfound consistency as it is inconsistent with his usually consistent inconsistency.
The point is, Lupul does not normally produce at such a consistent rate. If he trends closer to his normal amount of scoreless games then his point production will drop considerably. Versteeg, while also due for a drop in consistency is much closer to his normal rate of scoreless games. In fact, I will take it one step further and argue that Versteeg's improved rate of production, in terms of both points per game and percentage of scoreless games is a result of his development as a player and the fact this is his first true top line opportunity. Lupul is older and has had more opportunities in the past and has blown them. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Lupul does not warrant the same leeway as Versteeg.
To put another spin on it – would you rather own the perennial underachiever or the perennial overachiever if both are currently overachieving? It seems way more reasonable to go for the overachiever, especially when he is younger and has been historically healthier. If you own either one or both of them I'd be looking to sell high but if for some reason you have to pick one I will take Versteeg in both one-year and keeper leagues.
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Reddawg - Yeah I dunno what's going on there. He's watching the Versteeg show.
Bundestar - Yikes! Are you a Leafs fan or delusional? Or both?


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List of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory characters
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The following is a list of characters in the Roald Dahl children's books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and the former's 1971 and 2005 film adaptations.
- 1 Willy Wonka
- 2 Charlie Bucket
- 3 Grandpa Joe
- 4 Veruca Salt
- 5 Mike Teavee
- 6 Violet Beauregarde
- 7 Augustus Gloop
- 8 Arthur Slugworth
- 9 Mr. Turkentine
- 10 Computer Man
- 11 Patient and Doctor
- 12 Prince Pondicherry
- 13 Oompa-Loompas
- 14 Whangdoodles
- 15 Hornswogglers
- 16 Snozzwanglers
- 17 Vermicious Knids
- 18 Other characters
- 19 References
Willy Wonka[edit]
In the novels and films, Willy Wonka is the eccentric owner of a chocolate factory - a factory that workers are never seen to enter, but that truckloads of chocolate and candy exit. Wonka holds a contest, hiding five Golden Tickets within the wrappers of candy bars. The individuals lucky enough to find them are promised both a prize and a private tour of his mysterious chocolate factory, where it is revealed that he is looking for a successor.
In the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, he is portrayed by Gene Wilder.
In the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he is portrayed by Johnny Depp.
Charlie Bucket[edit]
|Charlie Bucket
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character
|First appearance
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
|Created by
|Roald Dahl
|Portrayed by
|Peter Ostrum (1971)
Freddie Highmore (2005)
Charlie Bucket is a title character and the protagonist of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, its sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and the film adaptations of these books that followed. He is depicted as a kind-hearted, poor boy that lives with his mother, father, and four bedridden grandparents. Despite being a stereotypical hero, he is a very kind-hearted boy. In the 1971 film adaptation, he has a newspaper route after school. He is curious and interested in Willy Wonka and his chocolate factory. He gets one chocolate bar a year for his birthday. In the 1964 novel, he keeps every chocolate bar in a wooden box to save it so it lasts about a month. He and his family follow the progress of the hunt for the Golden Tickets in newspapers and, in the films, on television. Unlike the first four of the Wonka kids, Charlie is honest, giving, sincere, and is willing to keep his family safe and cares about them.
One evening, as the Golden Ticket craze dies down, Charlie finds some money on the sidewalk and buys two chocolate bars, the second of which carries the fifth Golden Ticket. He returns home to read the Ticket with his family, where he discovers that the date of the tour is the following day; in the 2005 film, Charlie initially refuses to visit the factory, preferring to sell the ticket to raise money for his family, but is dissuaded by Grandpa George.
He and Grandpa Joe tour the factory with Wonka and the other Ticket winners, for whom Charlie voices concern as they disappear. In the novel, at the end of the tour, Wonka informs Charlie that he has selected him to take over the factory when he, Wonka, retires, due to Charlie's kind nature. In addition to being trained by Wonka, Charlie and his entire family are permitted to move into the factory. In the 1971 film, Charlie wins the factory when he returns an Everlasting Gobstopper given to him by Wonka, thereby passing Wonka's test. In the 2005 film, Wonka initially refuses to allow Charlie's family to join them in the factory, largely because of his own unresolved conflict with his father; in response, Charlie rejects Wonka's offer. Wonka sinks into a depression and eventually seeks Charlie's assistance. Charlie helps Wonka to reconnect with his father, after which Wonka allows the entire Bucket family to move into the factory.
In the 1971 film, Charlie and Grandpa Joe sample fizzy lifting drinks. This was not included in the 2005 film.
Grandpa Joe[edit]
|Grandpa Joe
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character
|First appearance
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
|Created by
|Roald Dahl
|Portrayed by
|Jack Albertson (1971)
David Kelly (2005)
Grandpa Joe is one of Charlie's four bed-ridden grandparents. He tells Charlie (and the reader) the story of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and the mystery of the secret workers. When Charlie finds the Golden Ticket, Grandpa Joe leaps out of bed in joy for the first time in almost twenty years. Charlie takes Grandpa Joe to accompany him on the factory tour, Mr. Bucket reasoning that Joe is the better person as he knows more about the factory than the rest of them. In the sequel book, Grandpa Joe accompanies Charlie, Willy Wonka, and all members of Charlie's family in the Great Glass Elevator and plays a crucial role in the rescue of the Commuter Capsule from the Vermicious Knids. Grandpa Joe's age is given as ninety-six and a half in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", making him the eldest of Charlie's grandparents. He is warm-hearted and used to work at the chocolate factory
An original backstory to Grandpa Joe's past was added to Tim Burton's 2005 film adaptation. In both the book and the 1971 film, Joe merely knows of Willy Wonka. In Burton's 2005 film, it is said that Joe actually worked for Wonka for five years, beginning when Wonka opened his first candy shop, until the day he fired all his workers from his factory. He then tells this to Wonka, and is welcomed back.
The character was played by Jack Albertson in the 1971 film adaptation Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
The character was played by David Kelly in the 2005 film adaptation, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Gregory Peck was originally slated to play the role, but he passed away before filming began.
Veruca Salt[edit]
|Veruca Salt
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character
|First appearance
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
|Created by
|Roald Dahl
|Portrayed by
|Julie Dawn Cole (1971)
Julia Winter (2005)
Veruca Salt is a ridiculously overindulged, selfish, bratty girl who is spoiled relentlessly by her wealthy parents. She is the second person to find a Golden Ticket, and lives in England. Her father apparently owns the Salt's Peanuts shelling factory, which he used to his advantage when trying to find a Golden Ticket that would grant his daughter access to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.As a running gag, Veruca frequently would bully and pester her parents to purchase a variety of different objects for her that grabbed her attention. When Veruca doesn't get what she wants immediately, she throws nasty tantrums and take things to extreme measures until she finally has her way. Her conceited nature finally got the best of her when she interfered with the trained squirrels used by Willy Wonka to select the best nuts to bake into chocolate bars. Judged as a "bad nut" by the squirrels, Veruca was sent toppling into the garbage chute, her parents later enduring the same fate after having been pushed into the chute by the squirrels while trying to retrieve her. Veruca is the third one ejected from the tour.
In the 1970s film adaption of the book, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Veruca is portrayed as being a surly, self-centered spoiled brat who rudely demands different desires to her parents nonstop throughout the course of the film, as she'd done in the book, although the squirrels that had tempted her into meeting her elimination from the competition are replaced by geese that lay special golden eggs used in Wonka candies. In the middle of the movie she and Violet as a funny running gag argue with each other nonstop about their personalities until Violet is forced to desert the tour to be squeezed back into a normal human after turning into a blueberry. Veruca is also shown to be very sassy and uncultured since when Wonka reveals to everybody his amazing lickable wallpaper and says "The strawberries taste like strawberries...and the snozzberries taste like snozzberries!" Veruca says rudely "Whoever heard of a snozzberry?!" Wonka then grabs her by the face and says with a small glare "We are the music makers...and we are the dreamers of dreams..." Veruca meets her demise in the contest at the end of her musical number in the movie, "I Want it Now", after jumping on top of the scale designed to weigh the geese's eggs and falling into the same garbage chute (due to the scale saying that she's a bad egg) sustaining the word "now". Although both of her parents accompanied Veruca on her trip to Willy Wonka's factory in the original novel, Veruca's father only joins her on her visit, her mother playing a minor role in the film. It is unknown what she has moved on to since.
In the 2005 movie adaption, Veruca is depicted as demanding, rude, and materialistic. Her father still serves as her sole supervisor during her visit to Wonka's factory, and the squirrels are kept intact. Her elimination during the trip remains virtually the same as in the book, with only a few changes made (a portrait of her mother thrown into the Garbage chute, since she does not accompany her), while her father still shares his daughter's fate. Unlike the first film, Veruca is shown to have successfully escaped the furnace alive with her father (since the furnace was broken at the time) but is covered in garbage. When she leaves the factory she sees the flying elevator with Wonka, Charlie and Grandpa Joe inside and says to her furious father that she wants one. Her father, however, has learned his lesson and says that all she is getting "is a bath and that's final!" When Veruca furiously retorts that she wants it anyway her father's reply is a fierce glare which gets her to remain silent.
In the 2013 Sam Mendes London musical, Veruca Salt lives in an English country house with her British billionaire father, Sir Robert Salt, of Salt's Salty Nuts. Mr. Salt is portrayed as a spineless dolt who caves into the outlandish demands of his spoilt, debutante daughter. In "When Veruca Says," he sings how he got his nut-shelling workers to find the ticket for his daughter, as well, in return Veruca demanded he buy her North Korea. She comes dressed to the factory in her ballerina tutu as well as a seal-fur coat, "clubbed and tickled pink." In the Nut Sorting Room, Veruca runs fowl of the nut-testing squirrels who deem her a 'bad nut' when she tries to steal one. This summons the giant squirrel calvary with Oompa Loompas riding on their backs. They sing a nightmarish ballet "Veruca's Nutcracker Sweet" that concludes with Veruca and her father sent down the garbage chute where they presumably await a fiery doom in the incinerator below.
Mike Teavee[edit]
|Mike Teavee
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character
|First appearance
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
|Created by
|Roald Dahl
|Portrayed by
|Paris Themmen (1971)
Jordan Fry (2005)
Mike Teavee, 'a boy who does nothing but watch television', is the fourth Golden Ticket finder . He was described as being adorned with eighteen toy pistols that he 'fires' while watching gangsters on TV. He is bad-tempered, but also more intelligent. Mike makes many comments about the absurdities of the factory workings and of the reasoning of Wonka himself. Wonka dismisses almost all of these comments as mumbling. Mike is finally removed from the tour.
In the book, both of Mike's parents tour the factory with him. When Mike shrinks himself, his parents cry and said that he will not be able to go to school anymore nor pursue hobbies. When Mike happily says that he can still watch television, his furious father announces that the TV is causing his bad behavior and says that he will throw out the television when they get home, much to Mike's anger. In the 1971 film, Mike is accompanied by his mother, who incorrectly attributes the piece Wonka plays on the musical lock to Sergei Rachmaninoff (the piece was actually by Mozart). Upon hearing Wonka's proposed solution to Mike's 'accident', she faints and is dragged away by two Oompa-Loompas. In the 2005 film, Mike is accompanied by his father, and when meeting Wonka, he dismisses several snide comments or corrections of the factory of Mike as mumbling. In both films, Mike's parents are revealed to be geography teachers, during an argument with Wonka about the existence of Loompaland. In the book, this exchange occurs between Wonka and Veruca's mother.
Mike was played by Paris Themmen in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, in which his last name was spelled as "Teevee" in the credits. Mike, hailing from Marble Falls, Arizona, is dressed in a cowboy outfit complete with a hat, a fringed jacket, a cap gun, and a red bandana in imitation of his favorite western TV show. He openly wishes he could have a real gun, a Colt 45, to which his father replies with a warm smile, "Not till you're twelve, son." Again, Mike is far more interested in his television than his Golden Ticket and expresses annoyance at the news reporters for disrupting his viewing, and only diverts his attention from the TV set long enough to listen to what Slugworth is whispering in his ear. When the children are asked to sign a contract prior to the tour that forbids them from divulging Wonka's secrets, Mike remarks, "I saw this in a movie once. A guy signed his wife's insurance policy, then he bumped her off." He signs his name as "Mike T.V." as he is saying this. Unlike the 2005 character, Mike is genuinely friendly and gets on well with Charlie. He is also the youngest of all the ticket winners, being around 9.
In the 2005 film, 13-year-old Mike (portrayed by Jordan Fry) is more arrogant but still has a more contemporary wardrobe in lieu of cowboy attire, now wearing a skull t-shirt and dark jeans with Converse sneakers. He now resides in Denver, Colorado, and his interests include the Internet and video games (especially gory first-person shooters) in addition to television viewing. He is confrontational with Wonka, who pretends not to understand what Mike is saying, opining that Mike shouldn't mumble so much, providing a contrast between Wonka's thought process of imagination versus Mike's thought process based solely on logic. He also only smiles once (during his scene where he teleports himself through the Television Chocolate machine). When he tries to conversate with Wonka, Wonka constantly dismisses his conversations as "mumbling". However he gets angry when Wonka explain how he intends to invent a teleporter for chocolate to the T.V and berates him saying "It's the most important invention in the history of the world, and all you ever think about is chocolate!"
In the 2013 Sam Mende's London musical, Mike Teavee lives in an suburban neighbourhood with his disinterested father and neurotic, alcoholic mother, Doris Teavee. Their opening number, "It's Teavee Time!" has Mrs. Teavee presenting her family as a normal, functioning household, downplaying Mike's violent, sociopathic tendencies like immobilizing a cat and chloroforming a nurse. It's implied that without Mike's obsession with video games, his aggressive behaviour would cause greater problems. Mike tells the reporter that he cracked Wonka's system and only had to buy one bar to find the Golden Ticket. Mrs. Teavee also resorts to medication (and alcohol for herself) to sedate Mike and herself. In the factory, Mike comes dressed in army pants, a black t-shirt with a skull, and an orange pull-over, while his mother looks as though she stepped out of the good ol' 1950's. In the Department of the Future, where Wonka transmits chocolate by television, Mike anxiously jumps into the machine and transmits himself, much to his mother's horror. Wonka summons down the monitors to see which channel Mike has ended up as the Oompa Loompas rave around the room, singing, 'Vidiots.' In their song, they sing about the television encourages destructive behaviour causing youth to waste their brains and dull their thinking power. Near the end, Mrs. Teavee joins in on the rave, as they conclude that Mike still has a future on Mike.com. Mike is of course shrunk to fit the screen with no hope of returning him to his normal-size. Mrs. Teavee turns uncannily gleeful that her son is now forever at a size where she may watch over him for the rest of his life.
Violet Beauregarde[edit]
|Violet Beauregarde
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character
|First appearance
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
|Created by
|Roald Dahl
|Portrayed by
|Denise Nickerson (1971)
AnnaSophia Robb (2005)
Violet Beauregarde, 'a girl who chews gum all day', is one of the Golden Ticket winners. Violet is the third child to find a Golden Ticket and the second to be ejected from tour. Violet chews gum obsessively and boasts that she has been chewing the same piece for three months solid. She is also aggressively competitive and has won trophies for a variety of sports and activities, including gum chewing.
When Wonka shows the group around the Inventing Room, he stops to display a new type of gum he is working on that doubles as a filling three-course meal. Violet is intrigued and, despite Wonka's protests, snatches and chews the gum. She is delighted by its effects but, when she gets to the dessert - blueberry pie - her skin's pigment changes to blue. In the 2005 version and the novel (with the exception of some differences), Violet's clothes darken, stretch and become glued to her body due to the juice making her skin very sticky. Violet then swells and grows into a circular shape, with her limbs and head pulled into her body. Within a minute of chewing the gum, Violet becomes a super-heavy human blueberry, weighing over 1 ton. Veruca then rudely jokes that Mrs. Beauregarde could enter Violet into a county fair. This causes Willy Wonka to have the Oompa-Loompas roll her down to the Juicing Room to have the juice squeezed out of her. She is later seen emerging from the factory more flexible but with her skin still colored blue, with Wonka saying they can't do anything to turn Violet's skin back to its original pigment.
In the book, Violet is drawn with curly hair and drawn as a tomboy. She is described as someone who talks very fast and loudly. After insulting her mother over a disagreement and demeaning her friend Miss Cornelia Prinzmetel, she explains how she used to stick gum on elevator buttons.
In the 1971 film, although she still turns blue and swells into a blueberry, she does not grow to be as large as in the 2005 film but everyone is still surprised. Even Veruca, Violet's supposed enemy, looks on in fear. She wears a red buckled belt which breaks off of her waist to emphasize the swelling stage. While her father argues with Willy Wonka over her early stages of her endgame, saying he will "break (Willy Wonka) for this," Violet continues to yell for help. By the time she has inflated to full size, she is now in an oval-shaped form, her head, hands and feet sticking out. During The Oompa-Loompas' musical number, they roll her around for a while before finally rolling her off to the Juicing Room, followed by another Oompa-Loompa dragging Violet's father along, with his parting line of "I've got a blueberry for a daughter." Violet's fate is unknown in this film, as we do not see her leaving the factory or anywhere else later on in the film.
In the book, both of Violet's parents go to the factory with her. In the 1971 film, she is accompanied by her father, Sam Beauregarde, a fast-talking used car salesman. In the 2005 film, she is the only child to come from a single parent family, living with her mother. It is implied that Mrs. Beauregarde is primarily responsible for Violet's competitive nature. In the 1971 film, Wonka states that if the blueberry juice is not 'squeezed' out of her immediately, Violet will explode. While this is not explicitly stated in the 2005 film, it is implied due to her enormous swelling.
In the 2013 Sam Mende's London musical, Violet Beauregarde is portrayed as a Californian fame-hungry wanna-bee, with her agent/father Eugene Beauregarde parlaying her mundane talent of gum chewing into celebrity status, with multitude of endorsements including her own TV show, line of perfume and a clothing boutique. Her theme is called, "The Double-Bubble Dutchess" where she raps how she started her gum chewing addiction after her mother put the gum in her mouth as a baby to get her to stop talking so much, as well, how she won her golden ticket. Violet and her father are escorted by an entourage to the factory entrance. Violet comes dressed in a sparkly purple and pink disco jumper, and pink backpack. Her demise comes about in the Inventing Room when she chews the gum that imitates a 'Sunday Roast Dinner' with tomato soup, roast chicken, potatoes and gravy, Fizzy Orange, cheese and crackers and of course, blueberry ice cream. Here, she starts to swell around the hips and butt, much to her father's horror. She panics and runs away as the Oompa Loompas break into an disco number, "Juicy" singing how Violet always wanted fame and will now be famous for becoming big and blue. They then break out their disco pumps and roller skate along the stage as Violet lifts into the air, now fully round, resembling a giant purple disco-ball. Mr. Beauregarde phones his lawyer excitedly, with intent to profit from Violet's new size, until Violet explodes. Wonka's only reassurance of her survival is the prospect of rescuing the pieces and de-juicing them before she starts to ferment.
Augustus Gloop[edit]
|Augustus Gloop
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character
|First appearance
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
|Created by
|Roald Dahl
|Portrayed by
|Michael Bollner (1971)
Philip Wiegratz (2005)
Introduced in the opening pages of the book as 'a greedy boy', Augustus Gloop is the first person to find a Golden Ticket. He hails from Dusselheim, Germany in the 1971 film, and Düsseldorf, Germany in the 2005 film. In the novel and both films, he is portrayed as being 'enormously fat' and also gluttonous. Augustus is the first child to be removed from the tour: while drinking from the Chocolate Room's chocolate river, he falls into the river and is sucked through a pipe to a room where he is manufactured.His mother takes great pride in his gluttonous eating and seems to enjoy the attention of the media focused on her son. She claims he gluttonously eats for nourishment. In the 1972 film, although he eats constantly, he has decent table manners, is not as obese as the other versions or his father (who is so gluttonous that when reporters ask him a question he actually eats the head of the microphone!), and is polite to Charlie (even handing him the feather pen for the contract) and the other children. Unlike the other versions; his mother's idea of limiting her son's excess consumption is telling him to "save some room for later." He also expresses concern that it will cost Wonka a lot of money to give him all the chocolate he and the other kids could ever eat, suggesting that he knows about economics and business. In the book he is seen leaving the factory having lost a lot of weight from the pipe. While in the 2005 film adaption he is still the same size but only covered in chocolate.
In the 2005 film, Augustus is not nearly as vocal as the other children. His gluttony is greatly emphasized as he is always consuming chocolate, which is also sloppily smeared around his mouth. His diet of just chocolate and meat (his father is overweight, as in the first movie, but is shown working as a butcher) renders him obese with a lumbering, slow walk, and he discovers the Golden Ticket in his Wonka Bar only after accidentally biting off and nearly swallowing one of the ticket's corners. He is aloof and cruel toward Charlie in the one instance when they interact, as he offers him a Wonka Bar as they are walking towards the entrance to the Chocolate Room and then retracts it, replying that he should have brought his own. When told by Wonka to "enjoy" the Chocolate Room, he begins to gorge himself on the room's various contents before moving on to the chocolate river, ignoring his mother's subsequent protests and Wonka's warning that the liquid chocolate cannot be touched by human hands. Augustus soon loses his balance and falls into the river, and is sucked out by the extraction pipe and whizzed off to the "Strawberry Flavored Chocolate Covered Fudge Room." He is also heavier in this film.
In the 2013 Sam Mende's London musical, Augustus Gloop is known as 'the Bavarian Beefcake' in his Alpine community. His mother and father indulge his eating habits with sweets and pieces of sausage of which they (and sometimes Augustus) butcher themselves. In his number, "More of Him to Love", Frau Gloop reveals how she had vital organs removed to retrieve Augustus from the womb. They arrive at the factory wearing traditional Eastern European clothing, with Augustus in a red, argyle sweater and green shorts. In the Chocolate Room, Augustus drinks from the chocolate waterfall and promptly falls in. Wonka summons down the diversionary plumping system to divert the flow, mostly though to save his chocolate more so than Augustus. Standing on the pipes are the Oompa Loompas dressed in red boiler suits. They sing, "Auf Wiedersehen Augustus Gloop", as they prepare the chocolate, while Augustus travels through the main industrial pipe occasionally getting stuck. It's implied in the song that Augustus awaits a gruesome end where he will be chopped into fudge. They conclude with a tap dance as Mrs. Gloop screams out for her son for the last time. Wonka phones up the Fudge Room to assure that Augustus' bones won't end up the toffee.
Arthur Slugworth[edit]
|Arthur Slugworth
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character
|First appearance
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
|Created by
|Roald Dahl
|Portrayed by
|Günter Meisner (1971)
Phil Philmar (2005)
In the book, Arthur Slugworth is one of Willy Wonka's rival chocolatiers. Slugworth, along with Wonka's other rivals Mr. Fickelgruber and Mr. Prodnose, sent in spies to steal the secret recipes to Wonka's treats. Having obtained these, he began making candy balloons that a consumer blows up to incredible sizes, and then causes to burst before eating them; a plagiarized invention. The work of Slugworth (along with the other rivals) came close to ruining Wonka's factory. Wonka was forced to close his factory and fire all his workers. A few years later, Wonka's factory began working again (operated exclusively by Oompa-Loompas) and his work continued to dominate the candy industry, with no rival able to plagiarize his work because using the Oompa Loompa as his workers enables Wonka to operate his factory without regular employees and keep it off-limits to the public, so no spies can infiltrate. Slugworth is never heard from again, but it is stated that Slugworth, Prodnose, or Fickelgruber would each give their front teeth to enter Wonka's inventing room (a laboratory) for three minutes.
In the 1971 film, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Slugworth's company is in business. Inside Bill's Candy Shop, Wonka's products and signs are the most visible; but Slugworth's Sizzlers are also prominently displayed, and one is even sold to a child called June Marie. Also seen are signs for Fickelgruber's candy. Grandpa Joe describes Slugworth as the worst of Wonka's rivals, telling Charlie that he was one of those who sent his spies in dressed as Wonka workers to steal Wonka's Recipes. A man calling himself Slugworth is a prominent character later in the film. As each Golden Ticket is found, a sinister man approaches the finder and whispers something into his or her ear. After Charlie finds the last ticket, the same man approaches Charlie as well, and delivers what is presumably the same speech he has given the other children. He introduces himself as Arthur Slugworth, president of Slugworth Chocolates Incorporated, and bribes the child to bring one piece of the newly invented Everlasting Gobstopper to him so he can discover and plagiarize the formula. Two of the children respond to Slugworth's bribe. Veruca Salt crosses her fingers behind her back when Willy Wonka asks the children to promise not to show the Everlasting Gobstopper to anyone else. Mike Teavee asks his mother what secrets they can sell to Slugworth; his mother is also heard telling her son to keep his eyes peeled and his mouth shut. Grandpa Joe also responds near the end of the movie. After Willy Wonka snaps at him and Charlie Bucket for sampling Fizzy Lifting Drinks, (probably a final test of character by Wonka) Grandpa Joe threatens to give Slugworth the Everlasting Gobstopper. However, Charlie can't bring himself to betray Wonka and thus returns the Everlasting Gobstopper to Wonka. Although at first it seems as though Slugworth is the film's main villain, Wonka eventually reveals at the end of the film that the man is not Slugworth, but a fellow Wonka worker named Mr. Wilkinson, and that his offer was a moral test of character. The movie does not explain how the false Slugworth was able to approach each winner so soon after they found their tickets. However, it's implied Wonka somehow managed to keep track of each ticket's destination and then he told Wilkinson where they're most likely to be found. The movie also doesn't explain whether or not Slugworth was another person, and if the false Slugworth was just pretending to be him. Slugworth/Wilkinson was played by Günter Meisner, a West German actor.
Slugworth only makes a split-second appearance in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He receives a secret recipe from Prodnose and is not heard of again. Examples of the plagiarization are shown, as is Wonka closing the doors on his workers, including Grandpa Joe. When Grandpa Joe meets Wonka, he tells him he used to work in his factory. Wonka does not seem to recognize Grandpa Joe, instead demanding if Grandpa Joe was one of the spies. When Grandpa Joe says that he wasn't one of the spies, Wonka says "Welcome Back." He is played by Philip Philmar.
Mr. Turkentine[edit]
Mr. Turkentine is Charlie Bucket's school teacher and appears in the first movie in 1971. He has a sarcastic sense of humour which he uses to express knowledge. He asks Charlie to assist him in making a medicine using several scientific elements for the class but the project is interrupted due to the frantic golden ticket search for Willy Wonka. Mr. Turkentine when hearing the news about the golden tickets during the project dismisses the class and runs out after the created medicine explodes. Later when it is revealed that all the tickets have supposedly been found ending with a Paraguayan millionaire he decides to use Wonka bars as an example to teach his class about percentages. Charlie Bucket only opened 2 Wonka bars during the search and so to help teach his class he decides to pretend Charlie opened 200. Mr. Turkentine is played by British actor David Battley.
Computer Man[edit]
The Computer Man as a joke in the 1971 movie is a minor character played by popular actor Tim Brooke-Taylor. The Computer Man tries to propose business with some investors about selling his invented machine that uses probability to figure out world secrets by using 3 Wonka golden tickets as an example. He pushes buttons on the machine and response 1: "I will not tell; that would be...cheating." He nervously presses more buttons offering it a share of the contest prize but next response brings him and the investors frustrated; "What shall a computer do with a lifetime supply of chocolate?" He frustratingly begins pressing more buttons and says "I will now tell the computer EXACTLY what it can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate!"
This minor scene is a reference to a part in the actual novel where the machine is shown to the crowd as a miracle machine with a claw that will sense gold inside candy bars and take whatever it senses with it by its claw to be opened and thus find the tickets...the machine is smashed by a furious mob because the claw grabs the golden tooth of a man and gruesomely rips it out thus making it again a failure to find Wonka's tickets.
Note: Although this takes place before the tour this was the last scene filmed for the movie shown because in the background were suitcases being packed to wrap up the filming.
Patient and Doctor[edit]
As another joke during the frantic search for the golden tickets, a patient named Mr. Hofstedder attends his personal doctor complaining that he is still unable to disbelieve his night dreams. The Australian accented doctor when taking notes replies that he has told him several times before that "believing in one's dreams is a sign of insanity and the sooner you accept this the sooner you will get well." In a twist of irony Hofstedder then replies about getting a message from an angel about the location of a golden ticket in his dreams; interested the doctor asks about the message. Hofstedder having reformed from his beliefs in his dreams then reminds the doctor that he said earlier that believing in dreams is insanity but the doctor impatiently shouts "Shut up Hofstedder and tell me where the ticket is!"
Prince Pondicherry[edit]
|Prince Pondicherry
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character
|First appearance
|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
|Created by
|Roald Dahl
|Portrayed by
|Nitin Ganatra (2005)
Prince Pondicherry is a prince who lives in India. He appears in the third chapter of the novel when Grandpa Joe is telling Charlie a story. In the story, Willy Wonka makes him a chocolate palace in India that melts because of the hot weather.
He is absent from the 1971 film version.
His name derives from the city of Pondicherry (officially spelled Puducherry since 2006) in southeastern India.
The Prince makes a brief appearance in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where he is played by Nitin Ganatra. He tells Wonka to build him a palace entirely out of chocolate, and Wonka assures him that it will be done. Despite India being a normally hot country, the construction of the palace saw no chocolate that was melted by the sun. The only molten chocolate in the construction was pre-melted by the construction workers.
Despite this, once Wonka completes the palace, he warns Pondicherry that he must start eating it straight away before the chocolate starts to melt. It is never exactly explained why he could make non-melting ice cream and not non-melting chocolate, unless there are certain issues with the formula. Clearly not a practical man, Prince Pondicherry ignores the advice and takes up residence in the palace (though he does eat one bite of the throne off).
Soon after, during "a very hot day with a boiling sun," Pondicherry is being fed chocolate by his princess when drops of melting chocolate begin to fall on the prince's head. The palace begins to fall apart, and the Prince and his lovely wife (played by Shelley Conn) escape unharmed but covered in chocolate, looking on at the melted palace, which is still seen falling down on itself. He then sends Wonka an urgent telegram requesting a new palace, but unfortunately Wonka has problems concerning industrial espionage in his factory and therefore cannot come.
The Prince was hopeless and couldn't do anything else but watch the palace melt under the hot sun with his wife they later moved into a palace in Bombay that was not made of Chocolate but Marble.
Oompa-Loompas are knee-high beings who originate from Loompaland in the region of Loompa, a small isolated area in West Africa. The Oompa-Loompas would end up being preyed upon or attacked by the various predators that also reside in Loopmaland before Wonka invited them to work at his factory and are paid in their favorite food, cacao beans, which were extremely rare in their island. The Oompa-Loompas are also mischievous, loving practical jokes and singing, the latter which they very good at improvising at, according to Wonka. As seen in each bad child's exit, the Oompa-Loompas sing moralizing songs of the child's folly.
In early editions of the novel, the Oompa-Loompas (originally called "Whipple-Scrumpets" before publication),[citation needed] are shown as African pygmies before Dahl rewrote them to be white skinned and golden haired. In both editions, despite working in the factory, Oompa-Loompas insist on maintaining their native clothing: men wear skins, women wear leaves, and children wear nothing. In the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, they were written to be played by actors with dwarfism, and are portrayed as orange-skinned, green-haired men in Germanic clothing with striped shirts and baggy lederhosen-like pants. In the 2005 film, all of them are played by actor Deep Roy, wearing their tribal clothing during their time in Loompaland, and wearing typical factory worker uniforms in the Wonka factory.
The Whangdoodles are a fictional species that are mentioned in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It is one of the animals that live in Loompa-Land and prey on the Oompa-Loompas as mentioned by Willy Wonka. In the book, it is mentioned by Willy Wonka that they eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast. Nothing in detail is mentioned about these species in the movie or the book.
The Hornswogglers are a fictional species that are mentioned in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It is one of the animals that live in Loompa-Land and prey on the Oompa-Loompas as mentioned by Willy Wonka.
The Snozzwanglers are a fictional species that are mentioned in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It is one of the animals that live in Loompa-Land and prey on the Oompa-Loompas as mentioned by Willy Wonka.
Vermicious Knids[edit]
Vermicious Knids are a fictional species of amorphous aliens that invade the Space Hotel "U.S.A." in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. They are also mentioned in the 1971 feature film adaptation, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, except on this occasion they are referred to as being one of the species of animals that inhabit Loompaland and prey on the Oompa-Loompas. The other named animals are the Hornswogglers, the Snozzwangers, and the Whangdoodles.
In their natural form, Vermicious Knids are huge, dark, egg-shaped beings who do not have any teeth, but swallow their victims whole. The Knids are quite at home in the vacuum of space, originating on the planet Vermes, a fictional planet located (as stated in dialogue) 184,270,000,000 miles (2.96553818880×1011 kilometres) from Earth (this would place it at 52 times Pluto's distance). Their one weak point is that they are show-offs; they cannot resist shaping themselves to spell the word "SCRAM" - the only word they know - before they attack. Wonka knows that this interval is ideal for escaping an encounter with the Knids.
According to Willy, numerous sentient alien species have been wiped out by the Knids' predations. Wonka claims that the only reason humans have escaped this fate is because the Knids - not being heatproof and not possessing retro-rockets – cannot enter Earth's atmosphere without being burned up by friction. In fact, Wonka says, what humans believe to be shooting stars are really shooting Knids burning up as they enter our atmosphere.
In Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, a swarm of Knids take advantage of the new Space Hotel "U.S.A." to lie in wait for humans. When the transport capsule brings the first guests to the Space Hotel, the Knids attack, devouring some of the guests and leaving the survivors to retreat to the capsule. Unfortunately the transport capsule, unlike Wonka's Great Glass Elevator, is not Knid-proof, and the Knids again attack, damaging its rockets and leaving it unable to return to Earth. Wonka, Charlie, and Grandpa Joe decide to rescue the damaged capsule by towing it back to Earth. One Knid wraps itself round the Elevator, then the rest form a line, and the end one forms a hook, planning to hook onto the one wrapped round the Elevator and tow it away. However the Elevator then returns to Earth, and the Knids burn up as they enter Earth's atmosphere.
The Vermicious Knids also make a brief appearance as, again, an animal species native to Loompa Land in the 2005 adaptation Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Wonka travels to Loompa Land in search of new flavors for candy, and when a giant green hornet-like animal (a Knid) attacks him he quickly kills it with a machete. Ever in search of new flavors, Wonka tastes the blood on the knife, but finds it wholly unsuitable for use in candy.
When Nestle created their interpretation of Wonka's world to sell chocolate bars under the name "Wonka", they released a number of downloadable flash games. In these games, Knids seem to have entered the factory and have the appearance of flying green blobs with single red eyes.
The etymology of the name was not provided by Dahl. Pronunciation of Knid is said in the book to approximate adding a schwa between the "K" and "nid", or in Dahl's words, "K'nid". Cnidaria is the name of the taxonomic phylum containing stinging aquatic invertebrates such as jellyfish and coral, itself derived from the classical Greek word for nettle, κνίδη. Vermicious is a real word, meaning "worm like".
The Vermicious Knids are also mentioned in several other Dahl stories, including James and the Giant Peach (after police see that the peach has landed on the Empire State Building) and The Minpins.
Other characters[edit]
|This section requires expansion. (December 2012)
|Mrs. Bucket
|Diana Sowle (1971)
Helena Bonham Carter (2005)
|Mr. Bucket
|Noah Taylor (2005)
|Mr. Salt
|Roy Kinnear (1971)
James Fox (2005)
|Mr. Beauregarde
|Leonard Stone (1971)
|Mrs. Teavee
|Dodo Denney (1971)
Cameo (2005) (uncredited)
|Mrs. Gloop
|Ursula Reit (1971)
Franziska Troegner (2005)
|Mr. Gloop
|Kurt Großkurth (1971) (uncredited)
Harry Taylor (2005)
|Mr. Teavee
|Cameo (1971) (uncredited)
Adam Godley (2005)
|Mrs. Beauregarde
|Cameo (1971) (uncredited)
Missi Pyle (2005)
|Mrs. Salt
|Pat Coombs (1971) (uncredited)
Francesca Hunt (2005)
|Grandma Josephine
|Franziska Liebing (1971) (uncredited)
Eileen Essell (2005)
|Grandma Georgina
|Dora Altmann (1971) (uncredited)
Liz Smith (2005)
|Grandpa George
|Ernst Ziegler (1971) (uncredited)
David Morris (2005)
|Bill, the Candy Man
|Aubrey Woods (1971)
Oscar James (2005)
|Dr. Wilbur Wonka
|Christopher Lee (2005)


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